Doppler Institute News
2024
- October 24
More sad news. John R.
Klauder, member of our advisory board for many years, passed away. His footprints in mathematical physics are deep and of lasting value.
- September 4
We suffered a heavy blow indeed. Miloslav Havlíček, founder of the Doppler Institute, passed away. We will miss his wisdom, humour and specific vocabulary that helped us struggle with the life.
2023
- November 20
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Dr. Daniele Ferretti of ETH Zürich, a honourary mention was given to Mgr. Kateřina Sýkorová, PhD., neé Jarkovská. Congratulations!
- October 10
Elliott Lieb, member of our advisory board, was awarded today the Kyoto Prize. Congratulations!
- September 12
Martin Malachov defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum chaos in quantum purification protocolss" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
- July 31
The project Center of Advanced Applied Sciences which supported our activities in the last five years has been concluded today.
- May 18
Vladimir Lotoreichik defended today his DSc thesis entitled "Optimization and asymptotics of
eigenvalues for differential operators with surface interactions". Congratulations!
- February 15
- Vít Jakubský
defended today his DSc thesis entitled "Analysis of Dirac materials with the methods
of mathematical physics". Congratulations!
2022
- November 22
Igor Jex was awarded Medal of the Czech Technical University Rector. Congratulations!
- November 12
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Simon Lukas Becker of the University of Cambridge. Congratulations!
- September 12
The 15th issue of our traditional series of conferences on Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics opened to day at UC Davis.
- August 2
Elliott Lieb, member of our advisory board, becomes today a nonagenarian without slowing down. Keep the pace, Elliott, and happy birthday!
- April 28
Pavel Exner was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences.
- January 24
John Klauder, member of our advisory board, becomes today a nonagenarian today. Happy birthday, John!
- January 21
Pavel Exner was, together with Alicia Dickenstein, Nalini Joshi and Laszló Lovász, elected honorary member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
- January 4
There is no end to sad news. Today we learned that Jiří Patera, a member of our advisory board, a good friend of many of us, and coauthor of some, passed away after a serious illness, aged 85. He left significant traces in several fields of mathematics and was one of the focal points of the community. We will miss him.
2021
- December 17
More sad news has reached us. Pavel Bóna, an original thinker and a good friend of many of us passed away, aged 80. We will miss him.
- November 26
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Francesco Di Filippo of SISSA Trieste, honourary mentions were given to Matej Hudec and Katarina Karlová. Congratulations!
- October 11
Iveta Semorádová defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Nonstandard perturbation methods and non-Hermitian models in quantum mechanics" written under supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
- July 12
Pavel Exner was elected honorary member of the Physical Society of Uzbekistan.
- June 18
Igor Jex was elected member of Academia Europaea. Congratulations!
- June 1
Ondřej Turek succesfully concluded his habilitation at the Czech Technical University. Congratulations!
- May 26
Pavel Exner was elected Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- May 26
Josef Rukavička defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Enumeration on finite rich words" written under supervision of Štepán Starosta. Congratulations!
- April 6
Jiří Maryška defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Asymptotic properties of quantum Markov processes" written under supervision of Igor Jex and Jaroslav Novotný. Congratulations!
- March 22
Jan Mareš defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Dynamics of percolated quantum walks on graphs" written under supervision of Igor Jex and Jaroslav Novotný. Congratulations!
- February 13
Sad news has reached us. Pavel Winternitz, a member of our advisory board, a good friend of many of us, and coauthor of some, passed away, aged 84. He had forged new paths in mathematical physics and inspired more than one generation. We will miss him.
2020
- December 2
Antonín Hoskovec defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Information transfer for multiple excitations; written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
- November 30
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Arman Tursunov of the Silesian University in Opava, honourary mentions were given to Luca Buoninfante, Armin Tavakoli , and Jakub Vošmera. Congratulations!
- October 15
Igor Jex and Craig Hamilton became participants of three-year project Complex stochastic systems: obile agents, particle diffusion and spin dynamics supported by Mexican CONACYT, together with colleagues from Yeshiva and Stony Brook universities in the U.S. and University of Baroda in India.
- September 29
Kateřina Kalová (Medková) defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Substitutive sequences and their properties; written under supervision of Edita Pelantová. Congratulations!
2019
2018
- November 30
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Tomás Husek of the Charles University in Prague. Congratulations!
- November 2
Professor Miloslav Havlíček, founder of the Doppler Institute, becomes today octagenerian. Happy birthday!
- November 1
After a successfull habilitation, Martin Štefaňák was promoted to day to associate professor. Congratulations!
- October 19
Radek Novák defended today at L'Université de Nantes a PhD thesis entitled
"Mathematical analysis of quantum mechanics with non-self-adjoint operators" written under supervision of David Krejčiřík and
Xue Ping Wang. Congratulations!
- February 16
Iva Bezděková defended today a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum walks with point spectrum" written under supervision
of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
2017
- November 30
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Dalimil Mazac of the Perimeter Institute, a honourary mention was given to Helena Kolesova. Congratulations!
- September 23
Igor Jex was elected Fellow of The Optical Society; the citation was "for contribution to the applications of optical network in quantum optics, in particular, for their use for quantum state measurement and in implementing quantum walks using the optical feedback loop."
- May 9
The conference Chaos, and what it can reveal
to celebrate Petr Šeba 60th birthday opened in Hradec Králové.
- March 24
Tomáš Vávra defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Arithmetical properties of Pisot units" written under supervision of Zuzana Masáková. Congratulations!
2016
2015
- November 30
Lubomíra Balková obtained her habilitation and Zuzana Masáková qualifi ed for a full professor position. Double congratulations!
- November 30
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Jan Vysoky of the Czech Technical University in Prague, a honourary mention was given to Frantisek Štampach. Congratulations!
- November 2
Pavel Exner obtained the fi rst degree Faculty Medal for leading
the Institute. Daniel Dombek obtained Antonín Svoboda Prize for best 2014 thesis in cybernetics and informatics; congratulations to him!
- September 30
End of the Europen grant which allowed us to support, through the FNSPE branch in Decin postdoctoral positions of Lenka Háková, Stepan Manko, Alexander Minakov, and Satoshi Ohya. There is no doubt that it produced some interesting results.
- June 18
Daniel Vašata defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Modelling of social systems" written under supervision of Petr Šeba. Congratulations!
2014
- December 26
Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2015. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, František Štampach and Daniel Dombek, as well laureates of significant prizes, Václav Potoček and David Krejčiřík. Let it be a successful time for all of us!
- November 30
Václav Votruba Prize was awarded today to Nicolai Friis of the University of Nottingham, a honourary mention was given to Lucie Augustovicova. Congratulations!
- September 11
Daniel Dombek defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Numeration systems with negative basis" written under supervision of Zuzana Masáková. Congratulations!
- September 10
František Štampach defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Spectral analysis of Jacobi matrices and related problems" written under supervision of Pavel
Šťtovíček. Congratulations!
- June 29
Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected President of the European Mathematical Society.
- May 14
Another significant distinction for a Doppler Institute member: David Krejčiřík was awarded today the Neuron Prize. Congratulations!
- January 19
Another Siemens Prize went to a Doppler Institute graduate; this time Václav Potoček received the third prize in the 2013 competition for the best PhD thesis. Congratulations!
- January 15
The Czech Science Foundations posted reports on our Center of Excellence project. As you may see, one finds it excellent, two others are brief indeed, one finds the project very good but unfocused, while the last one dealt with us without compromises. Looking at these texts, one gets a clear idea about the way the proposals were evaluated; it is also worth noticing that all the reports are local, no opinion coming from outside borders of this country is mentioned.
2013
- December 13
According to the list published today by the Czech Science Foundation our application for the Centre of Excellence was not successful. Being asked for referee reports, the Foundation president communicated that they will be published after being "properly anonymized". It will be certainly useful to see in which respect we have been found weaker than the successful competitors, but it will bot change the result.
As everybody knows, there is time for every purpose and fat years switch with lean years; those who are not willing to fight for their existence, have little chance. The main thing is to preserve the spirit of our community and good mutual communication in the quest for new interesting results.
- November 30
Václav Votruba Prize, for the first time supported by the Czech Technical University, was awarded today to Jaroslav Trnka of Caltech, honourary mentions were given to Philipp Hauke and Václav Potoček who was just distinguished once more. Congratulations!
- November 28
Václav Potoček was distuguished twice obtaining Rector Prize for his PhD thesis as well as Minister Prize. Congratulations!
- November 8
Filip Studnička defended today at the University of Hradec Králové a PhD thesis entitled "Analysis of
biomedical signals acquired by ballistocardiographic mesurements" written under supervision of - Petr Šeba. Congratulations!
- November 2
The meeting Analytic and algebraic methods XII to celebrate 75 birthday of Miloslav
Havlíček, a DI founding father, was held in Villa Lanna in Prague.
- July 19
The conference Symmetries of Discrete Systems and processes ended today successfully in Decin.
- February 12
Tomáš Kalvoda defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "A resonant effect for a periodically time-dependent singular flux tube and homogeneous magnetic field" written under supervision of Pavel
Štťovíček. Congratulations!
- January 29
Václav Potoček defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Optical implementation of quantum walks" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
2012
- December 3
To further enrich this fall prize spree, the Siemens Prize 2012 for the most important result of fundamental research was awarded to Aurel Gábris,
Craig Hamilton, Václav Potoček,
Martin Štefaňák, and Igor Jex for the work entitled "A 2D quantum walk simulation of two particle dynamics". Congratulations!
- November 20
Antonín Hoskovec was awarded the Preciosa Prize for his master thesis. Congratulations!
- November 20
Michal Jex was awarded the Siemens Prize 2012 for his master thesis. Congratulations!
- November 8
Igor Jex together with Jaroslav Novotný and Gernot Alber from TU Darmstadt were awarded the First Degree Prize of the Rector of Czech Technical University. The Second Degree Prize went to Jiří
Tolar and Goce
Chadzitaskos together with Petr Šulc and Miroslav Korbelář. Petr Siegl was awarded First Degree Prize for the doctoral thesis. Congratulations to all!
- November 5
David Krejčiřík defended today with flying colors the DSc degree. Congratulations!
- November 5
Petr Siegl and Štěpán Starosta were awarded Josef Hlávka Prize. Congratulations!
- May 28
We have been pleased to learn that Václav Potoček was awarded third prize in the Milan Odehnal Prize competition. Congratulations!
- April 26
- Štěpán Starosta defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Rauzy graph automorphisms and their applications" written under supervision of Edita
Pelantová. Congratulations!
- April 2
The Doppler Institute has passed through the official evaluation aiming at conclusion of the goverment grant LC06002 whch supported our activity in the last six years. In the final public session the evaluation panel gave us the highest mark, "excellent results of international class";. We welcome this appreciation and we reaffirm our intention to strive further under the new conditions for new interesting results.
- March 9
A paper on A 2D quantum walk simulation from our quantum information group appeared in
Science. Congratulations! Note that even one of the main Czech newspapers paid attention.
2011
- November 3
Martin Štefaňák was awarded Rector Prize for his PhD thesis entitled "Interference phenomena in quantum information"
defended last year. Congratulations!
- September 26
- Jiří Lipovský defended today at the Charles University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum graphs and their generalizations"
written under supervision of Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
- September 20
Petr Siegl defended today at the Universite Denis Diderot (Paris 7) a PhD thesis entitled "Systemes quantiques non-hermitiens, representations indecomposantes et quantification par etats coherents"
written under supervision of Jean-Pierre Gazeau and Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
- September 16
The conference WORDS 2011 ended today successfully in Prague.
- August 25
The three institutions involved in the Doppler Institute signed an
agreement by which they committed themselves to maintain DI as a common research center and to support it in the ways and by the means they have. We wholeheartedly appreciate this attitude, so different from what the Czech Science Foundation managed to demonstrate. Doppler Institute will live!
- June 7
We have been informed by this letter that our application to the Czech Science Foundation for support of the Doppler Institute next period was turned down on formal grounds. Readers, at least those able to read Czech, can appreciate the way in which the internationally competitive scientific projects are treated in this country. We can only say that we will not let die the project of two-decade history as a result of a bureaucratic ruling, the rationality of which can be easily challenged, and the Doppler Institute will keep functioning further with the means we will be able to find!
- April 3
Diana Barseghyan who got her PhD at the Moscow State University
joined us for a postdoc position.
- March 24
Stanislav Vymětal defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Purification protocols in quantum information"
written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
- March 20
The immediately following eights meeting on the Analytic and algebraic methods in
physics, this time devoted to "Words, numeration and automata", ended in Villa Lanna..
- March 17
The seventh meeting on the Analytic and algebraic methods in
physics opened in Villa Lanna..
- March 4
Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected Vicepresident of the European Research Council .
2010
- December 31
Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2011, an extra year granted to our center. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Karel Klouda, Martin Štefaňák, Petr Vytřas, and Petr Novotný. We had again one big task this year, organization of the
QMath11 - Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics conference in Hradec Kralove, and thanks go to all who contributed to this goal.
- November 30
Martin Štefaňák, Tamás Kiss, and Igor Jex were awarded the First Prize by the Rector
of Czech Technical University for "a collection of works studying quantum random walks from
the viewpoint of Polya numbers". Congratulations!
- November 18
Good news: the ministery announced that Doppler Institute financial support is extended till
the end of 2011.
- September 13
Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected member of Academia Europaea.
- September 6
The series continues: the conference QMath11 - Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics opened today in Hradec Kralove.
- August 30
The workshop Mathematical aspects of the physics with non-self-adjoint operators supported by the European Science Foundation opened today in Villa Lanna in Prague.
- July 30
The Follow-up meeting organized to conclude the
"Analysis on Graphs and its Applications" programme of the Newton Institute in Cambridge ended today. The participation of the Doppler Institute, both form the financial
and programme point of view, was loudly appreciated.
- June 25
Martin Štefaňák got the third prize in this year
contest for the Milan Odehnal Prize. Congratulations!
- June 24
The workshop Orbit functions ended up successfully today in Decin.
- June 14
Martin Štefaňák defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Interference phenomena in quantum information"
written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
- May 5
After a thorough preparation, Petr Vytřas defended today at the
Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum systems with magnetic field and point
interactions" written under supervision of Pavel Štťovíček. Congratulations!
- May 1
Severín Pošta passed successfully his habilitation
"Quantum deformations of orthogonal Lie algebras and their representations" at the Czech Technical
University. Congratulations!
- March 16
Gerry Boland who got his PhD at the University College of Dublin
joined us for a postdoc position.
- January 12
With a great sorrow we announce that Pierre Duclos,
a good friend and a coauthor of some of us passed away today just before he could present the talk he announced at
the Quantum Circle seminar. He enriched our lives in many ways
and his remarkable personality will be always in our memories.
- January 6
Petr Novotný defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Graded contractions of Lie algebra sl(3,C)" written under supervision of Jiří
Tolar. Congratulations!
2009
- December 31
Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2010. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Hynek Bíla,
Matěj Tušek and
Ondřej Turek. It seems that we were successful with our main task this year, organization of the
16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics, and thanks go to all who contributed to this goal! The next year will be the last one in the current life of the Doppler Institute and we should enjoy it.
- December 11
Ondřej Turek defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Schroedinger operators on metric graphs"
written under supervision of Pavel Exner and
Pierre Duclos. Congratulations!
- December 10
Matěj Tušek defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Non-Euclidean geometries in quantum mechanics,
quantum plannar models" written under supervision of Pavel
Štťovíček. Congratulations!
- December 8
The second edition of the monograph Hilbert Space Operators in Quantum Physics, revised and extended, was awarded the First Prize of Czech Technical University Rector.Congratulations!
- December 3
L'ubomíra Balková and Hynek Bíla were given honorary mentions
in the contest for the Václav Votruba Prize. Congratulations to both of them!
- November 13
A student workshop under the title
PhD Days will take place on November 13 and 20 in the DI premises in Trojanova St.
- August 31
Rafaelle Carlone is leaving us us heading for a new position. Good luck!
- August 10
Hector Hernandez-Coronado from Mexico City
joined us for a one-year postdoc position.
- August 8
16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics,
or in short ICMP09, ended today in Prague. It was an enterprise to which all the
power of the Doppler Institute was concentrate in recent month and we are glad that the meeing was
by all accounts successful. Thanks to all who contributed to this result!
- May 11
Hynek Bíla defended today at the Charles
University a PhD thesis entitled "Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum physics"
written under supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
- March 30
Takuya Mine from Kyoto joined us for a year as a DI Visiting Professor.
- March 24
The one-day conference
Quantization day 2 (AAMP IV)
dedicated to the forthcoming 70th birthday of Jiří
Tolar was held in Masarykova kolej.
- March 20
Raouf Dridi left us heading for a new position in France. Good luck!
- January 6
A new postdoc: Bernhard Burgstaller
who defended a PhD at the Johannes Keppler University in Linz in 2003 joined us starting a
one-year position.
2008
- December 31
Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2009. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Peter Baláži,
L'ubomíra Balková,
Martin Fraas, and Pavel Hejčík. The coming year is a challenge for the Doppler Institute because it will host a big event, the
16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics. Let us wish that this responsible task and the whole year be happy and successful for all of us!
- December 8
Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics for the 2009-2011 term.
- November 27
The workshop Physics of social systems opened in Hradec Kralove.
- November 26
Martin Fraas was given a honorary mention
in the contest for the Václav Votruba Prize. Congratulations!
- November 25
At the Czech Technical University Council meeting several Doppler Institute results were distiguished. Igor Jex together with Vojtěch Košťák and G.M. Nikopoulos were awarded 2nd Class Rector Science Prize for the paper Perfect state transfer in network of arbitrary topology and coupling configuration, see DI06-039. Furthermore, Jiří Hrivnák and Milena Svobodová were awarded Rector Prizes for an outstanding PhD theses. Congratulations to all of them!
- October 21
The microconference A canonical realization (AAMP IV) dedicated to the forthcoming 70th birthday of Miloslav
Havlíček was held in Vila Lanna.
- October 14
Denis Borisov who spent a year
and a half with us defended today in Ufa a thesis for his DSc degree, based in part on the work which he did in the DI. Congratulations!
- October 14
Igor Jex gave an
interview about quantum optics to the Leonardo channel of Czech Radio.
- September 1
Two other postdocs finished their stay in the Doppler Institute. Claudio Cacciapuoti left for another postdoc position in Bonn, and
Mark Harmer for a not yet specified position in Australia. Good luck, guys!
- August 21
Our expatriate student Pavel Hejčík defended today at the Kochi University of Technology a PhD thesis entitled "Properties of simple quantum graphs", his supervisor there was Taksu Cheon. Congratulations!
- August 16
The summer school and workshop Algebraic structures ended successfully in Telč.
- June 26
Junhua Chen left us heading for a new carreer in China. Good luck!
- June 25
One more PhD successfully finished: Martin Fraas defended today a thesis entitled "Models of quantum systems with strong singular interactions" prepared under the supervision of
Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
- May 30
The conference Journees de Numeration taking place in the Department of Mathematics of the CTU ended successfully.
- May 23
We have two new PhD graduates. L'ubomíra Balková defended today a thesis entitled "Beta-integers and quasicrystals"; she was supervized by Zuzana
Masáková from CTU and Jean-Pierre Gazeau from Universite Paris 7. Earlier, on March 14, Peter Baláži defended a thesis under the title "Three interval exchange transformation" prepared under the supervision of Edita Pelantová. Congratulations to both!
- May 19
The web page of workshop on Modern trend in quantum optics and quantum information was amended with slides of the talks and photos from the meeting.
- May 1
The workshop on Modern trend in quantum optics and quantum information began in Masarykova kolej.
- April 1
Pavel Winternitz is joining us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
- March 3
One more new postdoc: Angela Mestra who defended a PhD recently at University of Coimbra joined us starting a one-year position.
- March 1
Proceedings of the last-year microconference Analytic and algebraic methods in physics III (Prague, June 19, 2007) were published as a special issue of SIGMA edited by Miloslav Znojil.
- February 26
Rafaelle Carlone who defended a PhD recently at "Federico II" University of Naples joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
- February 12
Thomas Brougham who defended a PhD recently at Strathclyde University in Glasgow joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
- February 1
Alfred M. Grundland joined us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
- January 26
The 17th Student Winter School on mathematical physics ended in Polubny.
2007
- December 31
Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2008. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Ondřej Lev, Hynek Lavička, Jaroslav Novotný, Milena Svobodová, and Jiří Hrivnák.
Let the coming year be happy and successful for all of us!
- November 30
The Václav Votruba Prize 2007 was awarded to Miroslav Ježek for the thesis Quantum measurement and reconstruction with applications in optics. Congratulations!
- November 17
After half a year with us, Andrea Mantile left for a new position in Rennes. Good luck!
- November 1
- Michael Krbek from Brno joined us for two months as a postdoc.
- October 15
- Jiří Patera joined us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
- September 19
Junhua Chen who defended a PhD in St Louis this spring and then returned briefly to China joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
- September 18
Denis Kochan from Bratislava joined us
again, this time for three months.
- September 1
After more then a year with us, Tamas Fulop left for a new position in Hungary. Good luck!
- July 16
The international workshop on Pseudo Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics began at the City University of London.
- June 8
The advanced school Symmetries in Physics: Modern Trends began in Hotel Krystal.
- June 1
One more one-year postdoc position filled,
Claudio Cacciapuoti joined us this week.
- May 19
One-week spring school and workshop on Combinatorics on Words started in Herbertov.
- May 17
The third one-day meeting on the Analytic and algebraic methods in
physics will be organized on June 19 in Villa Lanna..
- May 2
Andrea Mantile joined us from Neapol starting a one-year postdoc position.
- April 2
Jan Kubieniec from Jagiellonian University in Cracow joined us on a one-year postdoc position.
- April 1
This time sad news: a frequent visitor of DI, a coauthor of
some of us and a friend of many more, Vladimir Geyler, passed away today in
Cambridge, a month before his 64th birthday. Memories of this good man and excellent
scientist will be long with us.
- March 31
Vít
Jakubský left us for a postdoc position in Santiago de Chile. Good luck!
- February 9
Two one-day meetings under the common title Analytic and algebraic methods in physics will be organized on
February 20
and
April 3 in Villa Lanna.
- February 2
Mark Harmer came from Canberra to join us on a one-year postdoc position.
- January 9
The DI annual report was discussed and approved by the DI Council.
2006
- December 31
Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2007. Let it be happy and successful for all of us!
- December 7-8
Another workshop of the DI under the title Spectra, Algorithms and
Data Analysis II
is organized in collaboration with University of Zielona Gora and University of Wroclaw in
Hradec Králové
- December 5
Igor Jex published in the Prometheus Publishing a small book titled "Ludwig Boltzmann - the first among the atomists" (in Czech). Congratulations!
- December 1
The Václav Votruba Prize 2006 was awarded to Michal Malinský for the thesis Quark and lepton masses and mixing in supersymmetric grand unified theories. Congratulations!
- November 9
A student workshop under the title PhD Days will take place on November 10 and 24 in the DI premises in Trojanova St.
- November 3
The International Association of Mathematical Physics announced the decision about the site of its next congress in the summer of 2009: in a competition with Shanghai and Sofia, Prague was chosen. This an important event for the whole Czech mathematics and physics community, and the Doppler Institute is going to play a central role in it; its members will take part in the ICMP Local Organizing Committee headed by Pavel Exner.
- October 29
Sylwia Kondej joined us for four months on a sabbatical leave from the University of Zielona Gora.
- October 25
Vít
Jakubský defended a PhD thesis "Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum mechanics" prepared under the supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
- October 2
Denis Kochan from Komensky University in Bratislava joined us for two months.
- September 25
Petr Ambrož defended at Universite Paris 7 a PhD thesis "Arithmetical and Combinatorial Properties of Non-standard Numeration Systems" prepared under a common supervision of Christiane Frougny and Edita Pelantová. Congratulations!
- September 15
Igor Jex together with Erika Andersson from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, won a two-year project "Networks for quantum information" supported by the Royal Society. Congratulations!
- September 14
The conference Operator Theory in Quantum Physics just ended in Prague. It was a busy and inspirative meeting. During the conference the DI Council met informally.
- August 23
It was a pleasure to see that the
results of Petr
Šeba and Milan
Krbálek on Mexican buses were quoted
in the plenary talk of Percy
Deift at this-year
International Congress of
Mathematicians in Madrid as one of the core examples of universality
associated with random matrix ensembles.
- August 14
Tamas Fulop
joined us at the end of July us being given a one-year
postdoc position in DI.
- June 20
Several young colleagues joined taking
temporary postdoc positions.
We hope that more will follow soon.
- March 30
Zuzana
Masáková passed successfully her habilitation at the Czech Technical
University with the thesis
"Arithmetic and combinatorial properties of beta-integers".
Congratulations!
- March 17
DI Council
elected its officers:
Ari Laptev became
Council chair and Pavel
Středa vicechair. Pavel
Exner is ex officio the second vicechair.
- February 28 - March 1
A workshop of the "new" Doppler Institute under the title Spectra, Algorithms and
Data Analysis
is organized in collaboration with University of Zielona Gora in
Hradec Králové
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Last update: October 24, 2024